#qualified Immigrants

[nationallawreview]

EB-5 Filing Strategies: Continued Immigrant Visa Availability Under the RIA’s Set-Aside Categories

The passage of the EB-5 Reform and Integrity Act (RIA) in 2022 resulted in the most significant changes to the EB-5 investor immigrant visa program since its establishment in 1990. Among the most notable changes implemented through the RIA was the creation of new “set aside” visa categories for EB-5 investors. These set-aside categories allocate a certain amount of the 10,000 EB-5 immigrant visas…

[anistarrose]

I think when a lot of queer people who aspire to marriage, and remember (rightly) fighting for the right to marriage, see queer people who don't want marriage, talking about not entering or even reforming or abolishing marriage, there's an assumption I can't fault anyone for having — because it's an assumption borne of trauma — that queers who aren't big on marriage are inadvertently or purposefully going to either foolishly deprive themselves of rights, or dangerously deprive everyone of the rights associated with marriage. But that's markedly untrue. We only want rights to stop being locked behind marriages. We want an end to discrimination against the unmarried.

We want a multitude of rights for polyamorous relationships. We want ways to fully recognize and extend rights to non-romantic and/or non-sexual unions, including but not limited to QPRs, in a setting distinct from the one that (modern) history has spent so long conflating with romance and sex in a way that makes many of us so deeply uncomfortable. And many of us are also disabled queers who are furious about marriage stripping the disabled of all benefits.

We want options to co-parent, and retain legal rights to see children, that extends to more than two people, and by necessity, to non-biological parents (which, by the way, hasn't always automatically followed from same-gender marriage equality even in places where said equality nominally exists. Our struggles are not as different as you think). We would like for (found or biological) family members and siblings to co-habitate as equal members of a household, perhaps even with pooled finances or engaging in aforementioned co-parenting, without anyone trying to fit the dynamic into a "marriage-shaped box" and assume it's incestuous. We want options to leave either marriages, or alternative agreements, that are less onerous than divorce proceedings have historically been.

I can't speak for every person who does not want to marry, but on average, spurning marriage is not a choice we make lightly. We are deeply, deeply aware of the benefits that only marriage can currently provide. And we do not take that information lightly. We demand better.

Now, talking about the benefits of marriage in respective countries' current legal frameworks, so that all people can make choices from an informed place, is all well and good — but is not an appropriate response to someone saying they are uncomfortable with marriage. There are people for whom entering a marriage, with all its associated norms, expectations, and baggage, would feel like a betrayal of one's self and authenticity that would shake them to their core — and every day, I struggle to unpack if I'm one of them or not. If I want to marry for tax benefits, or not. If that's worth the risk of losing disability benefits, in the (very plausible) possibility that I have to apply for them later in life. If that's worth the emotional burden of having to explain over and over, to both well-meaning and deeply conservative family members, that this relationship is not one of romance or sex. (Because, god, trying just to explain aromanticism or asexuality in a world that broadly thinks they're "fake" is emotional labor enough.)

Marriage is a fundamental alteration to who I am, to what rights an ableist government grants me, and to how I am perceived. I don't criticize the institution just because I enjoy a "free spirit" aesthetic or think the wedding industry is annoying, or whatever.

[beskad]

JD Vance is both a dirty fucking liar and a complete moron

Blaming the lack of available and affordable housing on, checks notes, "illegal" immigrants and not RAMPANT corporate/upper class/capitalist greed and wealth hoarding is absolutely despicable

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

my neighbour absolutely thinks i'm a woman and calls me 'she' and whatever but i can't correct her because a) i have no idea whether she knows what a trans person is or whether she'd be okay with that as a concept and b) culturally i don't think she would feel comfortable talking to someone she understood as not being a woman and i am all she's got so. i guess i can be a girl. for her and for her only

[afc-agitprop]

I've done the math, and if I keep saving up and have no financial emergencies, I will be able to afford ONE year of uni in about 10 years😭😭😭😭😭😭

[harpylady]

i interviewed for a job last week and they still haven't gotten back to me >:/

[warmpilsner]

i hate therapy as a client i hate therapy as a therapist horrible stupid exploitative industry unless you are neither poor nor an immigrant

[earl-grey-love]

Ugh... I have to go to London this week and I'd really rather do anything else. But alas, I must suck it up for the sake of love.

[spoonstrek]

Just started reading the last genealogy book from my grandma that I'd never gotten my hands on before and I am genuinely shocked to learn my grandma had a grandfather who was an immigrant, lol. Didn't realize we had such ""recent"" immigrants on that side of the family, too!

Apparently he was from Birmingham where he worked in a button factory until he was 9, which sounds like a lie he told his grandchildren to me but idk, if a child was working in a button factory then 1860s Birmingham is where that would be happening.

[brookhaven]

i will say its. weird. its weird thinking abt deportation bc my dads step grandfather is technically at risk daily, and when his (my dads) grandma died, her kids immediately started threatening him with deportation. bc they didnt like him. i have no idea if hes even still in the us bc he doesnt have a phone and my dad never gets to visit, but its weird to think about

[theygender]

Washington Post: Trump and allies planning militarized mass deportations, detention camps - February 21 2024

I really think people have forgotten just how bad things were under the Trump Administration. Literally every day there was news about some service being cut or someone terrible appointed somewhere they shouldn't be or what have you. He constantly flirted with WW3 and military dictatorship. It was such a blur of badness that there aren't big standouts for people to point to to make him "the XYZ president." it was everything. all the time. Why do we not remember this.

[not-your-lawyer]

When USCIS issues a specialty occupation RFE for a clinical health psychologist in a goshdarn cancer ward

[lexlawuk]

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[strohller27]

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[clios-purls]

I'd love to be like, when's the next fucking election

But we don't even have a decent opposition to vote for!!